The Golden Cellar

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The Golden Cellar

The ledger weighed four pounds, three ounces, and a heavy silence. Arthur Vane held it in the cellar, the leather cover slick with damp and the smell of rot, counting the years in his head as he turned the brittle pages. He was thirty years old, a clerk of twelve years’ standing, and for twelve years he had polished the brass fixtures of the Duke’s estate until his fingernails were white and...

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